Yankee Test

[John Bridge]

Andy Lundberg of Felker sent me this, and just in a nick of time, too. Seems we're gettin' a powerful lot of Yankees hangin' round this place. Now we get to find out who they is -- I mean are. :D

Please report your score so we can classify ya. ;)

Canadians can participate too. Just leave off all the "eh" stuff, eh?

Sorry, but Brits just can't be Yankees. ;)

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm

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[smee]

said I was barely a yankee. then I did it again...barely a dixie

it all hinged on the rolypoly answer, I think :D

guess that ='s westcoaster

[Hobbit]

Interesting....

Couldn't really figure out what the true discriminators were. Tried three times, changing a couple of answers that could have gone either way. Twice, I was very slightly "Dixie" and once very slightly "Yankee."

I guess that means my left coast upbringing is still in charge!!;)

:):)

[John Bridge]

My Left Coast upbringing too, Howard. I only did it once, and I came up 50/50. So 22 years in Texas had not completely eradicated my once perfect West Coast dialect. ;)

I'm curious to know whether Flatfloor can even pass the test. :D

[davem]

44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. :)

[John Bridge]

Michigan's below the Mason-Dixon line?

:)

[Derek & Jacqui]

Can't be a yankee John, but according to that test I'm 76% Dixie:D


Derek

[Steven Hauser]

90% Dixie Y'all.:D

[John Bridge]

Can ya believe it? Derek the Limey is more of a Reb than I am. :D

[Harry]

49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Now if I only knew if that was a good thing or what. ;)

[John Bridge]

Just depends on who you talk to, Harry. Watch your back, buddy.

:D

[jay f]

49% for me, 76% for wife (she was born and raised in Mississippi):D

[Dog paws]

45% barely Yankee and I was raised in Joysy:confused:

[JJC]

70% (Dixie).

Just goes to show I Gotta Move South!!!! You think I can submit this as evidence to convince my other half we should be movin, eh? oops, gotta to learn to drop that eh,...eh?

Jim

[Derek & Jacqui]

Must be the accent - no-one understands it!!!!

:D :D

[flatfloor]

60% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Go figger, I swear I dint cheat. :confused:

[patti]

Took the test for fun........twice. First it said 57% Dixie and then it said 46% Yankee. Just changed a couple answers that could go
either way. I've been in Houston for well over 20 years but I grew
up in Connecticut.

[Derek & Jacqui]

Well I'm only 67% Dixie so I must be more understandable than my other half(not difficult)!!
:o

[Davy]

82% Dixie, guess that makes me a hick, weeeeedogie;)

[cx]

Says I'm 60% Dixie. I been in Texas too long, eh? :)

Derek:

How the hell could you be 67% Dixie when y'all don't even speak English?! :D

[Derek & Jacqui]

CX, don't ask me. I couldn't even answer 4 of the questions.:confused:

[Ron]

53% Dixie.Not too shabby,eh?:)

[RandyL]

It's says I'm Sixty Dixie..........But I'd rather just be who I am........100% CANADIAN!!!!! WooooooHoooooo.....:p IN YOUR FACE YANKEE DIXIE PEOPLE............:D "Yeeeeehaaa Ya'll .....lets go down to the crik and catch us a crawdaddy.........MA......turn on the BBQ......wes havin' seafood.........YEEEEEEEEEHHAAAAAA! :D My old lady lost her dang third job dis week so I can'ts afford no gasaleen to git to da beer store, gus i have to hitch-hick agin'........YYYYYYEEEEEEEEHHHAAAAAAA!:D

[Davy]

Randy, you'd have too much fun living down here.:D

[flatfloor]

If you can finish this sentence you definitely are a Billy Bob or Velma Jean.

Throw another log on the fire..............................................

:D

[Toddl]

... and fetch me a beer? :D

[tileguytodd]

48% barely a yankee,see what ya'll have done to me:bang:
:D :D :D

[Ron]

...UncleDaddy? :p

[crabbyjoe]

55% dixie...Hmm?...well I am in Southern Ontario. :)

[jjwq8]

5% Dixie
5% Yankee
90% What the Fuuuu?

[John Bridge]

Hi Joe, Sign up. :)

[bbcamp]

66% Dixie!


Can't think of no smart-ass remark! Maybe I'll get the Stankhammer boys to try it. :D

[bctile601]

58% dixie

even though my skin pigmentation this time of yeer is actually WHITER than a cracker :D

[Steven Hauser]

:eek:

Y'all a bunch of damn yankees an Lord knows what!!!
I played on my time out west to reduce my dixieisms by 10%. I knew the dixie answer but didn't give it.

C'mon admit it, y'all want to be just like us way down deep.
Steven:D :D

[Mike2]

Holly crap, I been tainted. Some how got way up to 21%. :crap:

Musta picked up somethun last year when I left this briar patch for dat week in Corpus. Prolly stepped in some icing, messin up my tennis shoes when I walked up to that Party Barn to help 'em sing happy birftday. :laugh2:

[John Bridge]

We gotta come up with a better test. Everybody can't be Dixie. I think Andy must have tweaked it before he sent it over. ;)

[Mike2]

Yep, I musta agree JB. :shades: And we need one in English! You's jist no this one's bogus, with all em foreign words like Poke, Bubbler, and Crawdads. :D

[genel]

I got 55% dixie. I have to say I am disapointed. I was raised in the mountants of North Carolina and have lived in Texas for 20 years. I think its bogus.

BTW: they missed several important questions.

What is the name of a dish made from thinly sliced cabbage? ('slaw).

What is the plural of y'all? (all y'all).

[bctile601]

ya, they also missed another i can think of, ....... once you git yer goc'rys in the sack, what do you put all y'all's sacks inta ??

.......... shopping cart

.......... buggy

:D

[John Bridge]

What is the plural possessive of y'all? "all y'all's."

Example: Y'all get all y'all's s . . . outa here right now, hear?

:D

[Steven Hauser]

Oh I git it.

Y'alls kin kiss my ass and y'alls yunguns are butt ugly.

Something like that eh?

Oh BTW John,
and it ain't hear its herh.



:D

[Mike2]

all y'all's plain loco. :crazy: Either too much sun or crap for beer.

You come up here my way. I'll take y'all's on a fishin trip up in the Interior, northeast of Fort Nelson. One week on a horse an katchin 4 pound Dolly's git you all straightened out again, eh. :shades:

[Davy]

Throwing Toilet paper over a house is called "wrapping", at least round these parts. In California we called it "papering" when I was growing up.;)

[flatfloor]

...an tell me why yore leavin me :D

Entire song

Put another log on the fire,
Cook me up some bacon and some beans,
Go out to the car and change the tire,
Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.
Fill my pipe and then go fetch my slippers,
And boil me up another pot of tea,
Then put another log on the fire,
And come and tell me why you're leaving me.

Don't I let you wash the car on Sundays?
Don't I warn you when you're gettin' fat?
Ain't I gonna take you fishin' with me someday"
A man cain't love a woman more than that!
Ain't I always nice to your kid sister?
Don't I take her drivin' every night?
So sit here at my feet, cause I love you when you're sweet,
And you know it ain't feminine to fight.

[KChurch1]

48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
I was born and raised in So. California, but my grandparents are from Michigan and Texas... interesting quiz...

[Mike2]

"...just sit here by my feet cause you're so sweet..."

man-o-live, gist playin a song like that'll git you 91% to be'in single. :D

[John Bridge]

Who did the song, Jim? ;)

So anyway, when y'all get y'all's heads out from behind y'all's belt buckle, tell me about all the tenses of "fixin." ;)

[Mike2]

You need to be 'fixin' to git over to Austin town more ofen JB. I'm purdy sure Tompall did that tune [or rote it] :shades:

[genel]

Originally posted by John Bridge


So anyway, when y'all get y'all's heads out from behind y'all's belt buckle, tell me about all the tenses of "fixin." ;)

Ah'm a' fixin': Ah'm a fixen ta go ta the house.
He's a' fixin': He's a' fixin' ta go ta town. (Also she's a' fixin')
It's a' fixin': It's a' fixin' ta rain. (In North Carolina this would always be: "Hit's a'fixin ta rain".

Past tense the a' is optional:
He was a' fixin' ta fix his car
or
He was fixin' ta fix his car
or even
He were fixin' ta fix his car

The future tense in fromed with the helper verb "gonna'be"
I'm a' gonna'be fixin' to go to work real-soon-now.

The infinitive is "ta be a' fixin". -- Ta be a'fixin' ta get out'a bed and ta lay there jist a bit longer, is the finest part a' the day.

There, its all done but the finishin' up an' I gotta' be fixin' ta git ta bed.

[jjwq8]

Mike suggested the test should be in English. If that happens you are all royally screwed :D :nod: :wave:

[Mike2]

Berry good Q8. :D Maybe I better retract that English statement. How about we compromise...git some our friends from Winnipeg or Moose Jaw to translate dat test into Canadian....certainly be a whole lot better than what we got now, don't cha no.

And then there's genel, showin off and all, how he still members to conjugate dem verbs. I'm relatively impressed, course fixin' purdy easy one ta do, eh.? :shades:

[John Bridge]

We could translate the test into whose English? Derek, for example, did very well on the test as is. If it were in English, he'd probably flunk if Jacqui didn't help him cheat. :D

I'll tell you what we need. We need an Australian. Now there's a dialect for ya. ;)

[jjwq8]

A whole book has been available for years that constitutes such a test:

"Fraffly Strine Everything" by Afferbeck Lauder. Fabulous reading:D

[Bugman]

Loved the test!!:D I passed it on to several others and the results have been interesting.

I spent my first 34 years in "Southern" Wisconsin and moved to South Carolina in 1978. I amazed my southern coworkers when I ate grits and cornbread right from the git-go. Funny thing is, when I go back to Wisconsin everyone thinks I have a southern accent. I still get people in SC wondering where I am from. ;)

BTW, my score was: 43% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

[Mike2]

...nice try Q8, but London's west side speak ain't gonna cut it, 'less u livin' on Rotten Row. :D

[jjwq8]

Mike, I am not joking, try looking it up on amazon or barnes and noble.:yeah:

[John Bridge]

Clyde,

I think South Carolina (and North Carolina) must be beginning to sound more mid-Western or Western. I know when I've been around your area, I haven't noticed the distinct Carolina dialect I used to hear when I was in the Army playing war games there back in the sixties. Back then I could hardly understand anyone. :)

It's like Houston. When I arrived here 22 years ago I was greeted by bumper stickers calling me a Yankee and telling me to get the hell out. It made no difference that I was not a Yankee and never had been.

The most popular sticker was "Native Texan and Proud of It." Now you're hard pressed to find a native Houstonian as I remember them. They are here, of course, but they are my children and the children of other "transplants." The place has become so cosmopolitan you'd hardly know it's the "South." :)

I can talk like Bubba if I have to, though. :D

[Mike2]

I gis new yew were settin' me up Q8... I gis new it. :bang:

But I went ahead and did it anyways. So I go's ou'ta Amazon, search on this Afferbeck guy, and sure 'nough, git a hit. So far, OK. So he's got a few books for sale. Now here's one of the reviews on his latest book, Fraffly well spoken: how to speak the language of London's West End.

Quote: "Wommer snoppy withot it - wonker nurnley sair this isser chommin bookin effry wear. Femmer sessair, sir tragedy its otter print. wotter biter re-print . :eek: I swear to God, somebody actually wrote that, as a review! Now I don't think you'r gonna find any Brit, not even one in Q8 wift mad-camel disease who's gonna understand what the hey all that means. :shades:

[Bugman]

John,

South Carolina is definitely a land of contrast. I travel throughout the state and there are some real distinct dialects in different areas. It's very interesting.

Where were you playing war games in the 60's? Ft. Jackson?? Lots of people only know SC from Ft. Jackson experience or Parris Island. Not neccessarily the most pleasant memories for some;)

[John Bridge]

No, I was in the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., the outfit that later became the 1st Air Cavalry Div. and shipped out to Viet Nam. We had no "headquarters" as it were in the Carolinas. We sort of roamed all through the back country. I can't remember the names of the little towns, but they were places like Pendleton. I remember passing through Monroe, N.C. at one point. Spent months in the area. I was a truck driver at the time. Got around quite a bit. :)

[Steven Hauser]

Clyde,

Howdy.:D

Steven

[Bugman]

Steven,

Howdy, neighbor!

Clyde

[flatfloor]

Mike's got the name of the performer right John and somehow Willie Nelson and Waylon got mixed up with it also they may have writ it. The site I found the lyrics on is a little disorganized. :)

[Mike2]

Ah yes jimmy, good 'ol Waylon, God bless his soul. Did ya know he was the drummer in Buddy Holly's band "the day the music died".

Bill Monroe, Bob Wills, Hank Williams Sr., now they were Good.....Waylon was Great! :king:

[jjwq8]

Mike
Just saw the peice of that book. $150! :eek:

I won't spend that much just so I know how to say:

"Gine dine tine to spend a thuysand pines on the hice"

:D

[Mike2]

...yep Q8, that purdy much say's it all....whatever that all was. :D

[jjwq8]

At last!:D
A task I can warm to.

Translating English for American speakers :D

[Scooter]

49% Barely a Yankee.

[rj]

42% yankee.

thats prolly cause mah ma 'an pa was from pennsyltucky :nod:

[Albert]

yankee test still dont wurk. just tryit.

albert

[John Bridge]

Hi RJ,

Long time, no see. :)

[Albert]

i serous john. like i tolt you today the test dont wurk.

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm

i tried the first link you gaveus but it dint wurk no more.

i dont no what happend. i hope dint broke it.

albert

[flatfloor]

Albert, how hard were you hitting the keys when you were typing? Too hard and you brake the link. :rolleyes:

[Bugman]

I guess everyone just plain wore out the Yankee test. It was posted on a discussion list from my old high school and they are all complaining that it won't work.

Don't think you can blame Albert for this. :D

[Mike2]

u ain't missin much cause it didn't work when it worked.

[Bugman]

Hey Y'all,

The Yankee test is working agin!!

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fu..._dixie_quiz.htm

[John Bridge]

Nope, my browser can't find it again. ;)

[Bugman]

John,

Are you taking typing lessons from Albert again??? Must have hit the Enter key too hard.

The site worked this morning.

[John Bridge]

Don't know. I go nowhere when I click that link. Might be hallucinating, though. ;)

[flatfloor]

Still NG:(

[Albert]

i tole you it was broke. its a trik.

albert